Awards and Achievements
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Current Students
Maryam Athari
- 2020 Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Jessy Bell
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2019 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing
Antawan Byrd
- Curator for 2019 Lagos Biennial
- Frederick Douglas Institute for African and African-American Studies Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Rochester, 2016-17
- CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2014-15
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum Graduate Fellowship, 2014-15
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014
Olivia Dill
- Huntington Library Summer institute in History of Science and Medicine, 2019-20
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Caitlin DiMartino
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2019-20
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Anna Dumont
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venice and the Veneto Research Grant, 2019-20
Sarah Dwider
- Equality Development and Globalization Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2019-20
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Sarah Estrela
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2018-19
Douglas Gabriel
- Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2016-17
- 2019-2020 Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute at Harvard
Laurel Garber
- Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship, 2019-20
Jessica Hough
- COSI Internship, 2019-20
- Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2019-20
Benjamin Jones
- SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2019
Adri Kacsor
- SSRC IDRF, 2019-20
- Getty Library Research Grant for September 3-10, 2019
- CLIR International Dissertation Fellow, 2019
Özge Karagöz
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Tamar Kharatishvili
- 2019 Summer Insitute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) at Harvard
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2017-18
Brian Leahy
- Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2019-20
Jacob Leveton
- COSI Curatorial Fellowship, 2019-20
- Yale Center for British Art Visiting Scholar, 2016-17
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2013-14
Thomas Love
- Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, 2019-20
- DAAD Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists, 2019-20
- DAAD Research Grant-Germany, 2018
- Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2018
Scott Miller
- Mellon COSI Curatorial Research Fellow, 2018-19
- Chateaubriand HSS Fellowship, 8 months, 2016-17
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014
- Huntington Library Summer institute in History of Science and Medicine, 2019-20
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum, 2019-20
- Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2019-20
- Rubenianum Research Fellowship, Belgian American Education Foundation, 2019-20
- Visiting Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2019-20
- Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University, 2019-20
- Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern, 2019
- Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2019-20
- Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2018-19
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2016-17
McKenzie Stupica
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Kate Tahk
- CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2014-15
- American Councils Title VIII Combination Research and Language Training Fellowship, 2014
- CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2013-14
- The Medici Archive Project Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, 2019-20
- Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2016-17
- Mellon COSI Internship at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-16
- Equality Development and Globalization Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2019-20
- Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20
Recent Grads
Elizabeth Benjamin
- Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship 2013-15
- Bourse Jeanne Marandon, 2011-12
- Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2011-12
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011-12
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2009
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2008-09
Emilie Boone
- CIC-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, 2012-14
- Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, 2014
- Marcus Garvey Foundation Jean Harvey Slappy Research Fellowship, 2012-13
- Luce Dissertation Research Award, 2011-12
- Capitol Fellowship Program Grant, 2010
Alison Boyd
- Max Planck Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-17
- Max Planck Institut Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2014-15
- Winterthur Fellowship, 2014
- Henry Luce Foundation American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2011-12
Jill Bugajski
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2012-13
- Smithsonian Institute Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-13
- Dissertation Fellow, Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University, 2012-13
- Dissertation Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
- Northwestern University Luce Dissertation Research Grant, 2012
- Research Fellow, The Wolfsonian at Florida International University, 2012
- Swann Foundation Fellow, The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress, 2012
- Getty Research Institute, Library Research Grant, 2009
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2008
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2008
- Northwestern Summer Foreign Language Grant, 2007
Zirwat Chowdhury
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, 2010
- IHR Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 2009-10
- Junior Fellowship at the Mellon Centre, 2009-10
- Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 2009-10
Emma Chubb
- Camargo Foundation Fellowship, 2014-15
- Winterthur Research Fellowship, 2014-15
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies, 2013-14
- Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2012-13
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2012
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011-12
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2011
- Buffett Center Crown Family Middle East Research Travel Award, 2011
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010
Vanessa Crosby
- Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellowship
Nancy DaSilva
- Venture for America Fellowship, 2013-14
Grace Deveney
- Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2014-15
- Eliza Dangler Curatorial Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, 2013
Claire Dillon
- George Mitchell Scholar
Ashley Dunn
- Fellowship to attend the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, Summer 2014
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2013-14
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2013; 2012
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2011-12
Alison Fisher
- Gilbert Chinard Research Fellowship, Institut Francais d'Amerique, 2009
- Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2007-08
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2006
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2004-05
Faye Gleisser
- CIC-Smithsonian Institute Fellowship, 2014-15
- Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014-15
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2014-15
- Graduate Teaching Fellow, Northwestern Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, 2014-15; 2013-14
- Smithsonian Institute Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-13
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2013
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Grant, 2012-13
- Northwestern Buffett Center Summer Research Grant, 2012
- Luce Summer Travel Grant, 2011
- Gulnar-Bosch Travel Assistance Award, South Eastern College Art Conference, 2011
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010
Stephanie Glickman
- Huntington Library Short-term Award, 2014-15
- Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship (Universiteit Leiden), 2012-13
- SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2012-13
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2013
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010
James Glisson
- John H. Daniels Fellowships, 2009-10
Brynn Hatton
- Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2013-15
- Buffett Center Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, 2013
- U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language Area Fellowship, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2012
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2012
- Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architecture Writing, Art Institute of Chicago, 2011
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2011
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011
Tera Lee Hedrick
- American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013-14
- Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Junior Residential Fellowship, 2010-11
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010
Ka Ming Kevin Lam
- Li Fellow in Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014-15
- Marilyn A. Papp Graduate Scholarship Trust Fellowship, 2014-15
- Cleveland Museum of Art Curatorial Fellowship, 2013-14
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010
Min Kyung Lee
- Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Research Fellowship, 2010-11
Jacob Lewis
- Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 2010-11
- Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship, 2009-10
Nancy Lim
- Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Asian Art Curatorial Fellow, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009-11
- French Interdisciplinary Group Travel and Short-term Research Grant, 2008
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2008
- Helena Rubenstein Summer Internship at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007
Angelina Lucento
- IIE Graduate Fellowship for International Study, 2010-11
- Fulbright IIE Research Grant, 2010-11
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2008-09
- BCICS Grant for Summer Dissertation Proposal Research, 2008
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2008
- Paris Program in Critical Theory
C.C. McKee
- 2018 Professional Development Fellowship from College Arts Association
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2015-16
Nicholas Miller
- Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012-14
Aisha Motlani
- 2020-21 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship
- American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship, 2018-19
John Murphy
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2014-15
- Winterthur Research Fellowship, 2014
- Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2012-13
Catherine Olien
- Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship, 2016-17
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship, 2015-16
- DAAD Research Grant, 2014-15
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014
- TGS Graduate Research Grant, 2013
Elizabeth Oliver
- Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2013-14
- Huntington Library Residential Fellowship, 2013
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellow, 2012-13
- Fulbright-Nehru Grant to India, 2012-13
- L'École Normale Supérieure Academic Year Exchange Fellowship, 2011-12
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2011
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2010
- Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2018-20
- Mellon COSI Curatorial Research Fellow, 2016-17
- Fulbright Research Grant to Germany, 2015-16
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014
Erin Reitz
- Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2013-14
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Rory Alison Sykes
- CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2015-16
- SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2015-16
- Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award
Laura Veneskey
- Kress Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 2010-11
- Max Planck Institute Doctorial Fellowship, 2010-11
Maureen Warren
- Pittsburg Foundation Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fellowship, 2014
- Universiteit Leiden Scaliger Fellowship, 2014
- Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art at a Foreign Institution, Kunsthistorisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, 2011-13
- National Committee for the History of Art Fellowship to attend the International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, 2012
- Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2012
- Fulbright Research Grant to The Netherlands, 2011-12
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2011
- Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2009; 2008
Lily Woodruff
- Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2009-10
Xiao Yang
- Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Research Fellowship, 2014-15
- Barbara Smith Shanley Graduate Travel Fellowship, 2012
- Research Grant for Chinese Art History Project, University of Heidelberg, 2012
- Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010